I took an actual seascape photograph

It sometimes feels like I've completely abandoned my first photographic love of land and seascape image making.  After all, from taking several every week my output is now in single figures for the past year!

While nature and macro photography have kind of taken over by necessity, I still enjoy looking at land and seascapes probably more than any other genre.  And the vast majority of photographers I "follow" are those that shoot in this same genre.

The reasons behind my lack of making this type of image are well documented.  I'm often just too tired to get out of the house.  But just last week, with my wife and daughter heading into Swansea to do the weekly shop, I figured I could tag along and along with Dexter and get onto the beach.

And so it was that I found myself with my dog, my camera, my wide-angle lens, my tripod and my filters trying to remember my long exposure workflow.

Once I did, then this was the result:

Fujifilm X-H2, Fujifilm 10-24mm f4 at 13mm
4 minutes at f10, ISO 64
tripod, Kase Wolverine circular polariser, 6-stop and 10-stop neutral density filters

This was quite a tricky image to make.  Given the time of day and the fact the sun was breaking in and out of the clouds, a polariser was needed to take any glare from the surface water, and both my 6 and 10-stop filters were needed to get a long enough exposure to show the movement in the clouds.

I also reduced my camera's ISO to its extended low value of 64 and then shot exposures at 2 and 4 minutes, choosing the latter to show here.

When editing the image later, I also came up with this mono conversion, and I can't decide which version I prefer!

If you want to watch a vlog of the outing, then click away below…